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Overview
You hold in your hands the best-selling guide to NewTek's LightWave 3D animation software, completely updated for LightWave v9 by award-winning animator and trainer Dan Ablan. Rather than rehash the documentation like other books, this down-to-earth, easy-to-follow guide offers an invaluable set of project tutorials that teach you the ins and outs of LightWave and show you the techniques you need to master this powerful 3D software. Inside LightWave v9's accompanying DVD features hours of high- quality video training tutorials that will help you take the projects in the book to new heights. No other book has taught more LightWave 3D users than Inside LightWave.Featured tutorials cover:
- Insights into the new LightWave v9 workflow
- Powerful new surfacing with the Node Editor
- Character modeling
- Bones and rigging for character animation
- Particle animation
- Hard body and soft body dynamics
- Rendering concepts with the new Global Render options
- Advanced camera tools
Accompanying DVD-ROM offers hours of unique training videos created just for this book, exclusively from 3DGarage.com (requires QuickTime); a demo of LightWave v9 for Mac OS and Windows; all of the projects from the book; royalty-free textures and reference images; and full-color screenshots from the book!
Synopsis
You hold in your hands the best-selling guide to NewTek's LightWave 3D animation software, completely updated for LightWave v9 by award-winning animator and trainer Dan Ablan. Rather than rehash the documentation like other books, this down-to-earth, easy-to-follow guide offers an invaluable set of project tutorials that teach you the ins and outs of LightWave and show you the techniques you need to master this powerful 3D software. Inside LightWave v9's accompanying DVD features hours of high- quality video training tutorials that will help you take the projects in the book to new heights. No other book has taught more LightWave 3D users than Inside LightWave.Featured tutorials cover:
Insights into the new LightWave v9 workflow Powerful new surfacing with the Node Editor Character modeling Bones and rigging for character animation Particle animation Hard body and soft body dynamics Rendering concepts with the new Global Render options Advanced camera tools
Accompanying DVD-ROM offers hours of unique training videos created just for this book, exclusively from 3DGarage.com (requires QuickTime); a demo of LightWave v9 for Mac OS and Windows; all of the projects from the book; royalty-free textures and reference images; and full-color screenshots from the book!
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewThose amazing effects in 300: those oceans, armies, spears, arrows, shields? Done in LightWave. With LightWave v9's introduction, it's a great time to learn this program. Dan Ablan's Inside LightWave books have long been the best way to get started. Now he's reorganized his v9 book to get you productive even faster.
Watch his new DVD QuickStart video to rapidly familiarize yourself with LightWave v9's interface and workflow; then turn to his friendly narratives and step-by-step projects for everything else. (All project files are provided, along with a 30-day Lightwave v9 trial.)
Ablan walks you through textures, lighting, 3D cameras, text and logos, modeling, rigging, animation, dynamics, and LightWave v9's remarkable particle effects and rendering capabilities. Along the way, you'll master some very hot new features. (Example: the Node Editor, which lets you create incredible surfaces -- once you've read Ablan's all-new chapter on it.) Bill Camarda, from the May 2007 Read Only
Book Details
Published
April 13, 2007
Publisher
Pearson Education
Pages
752
ISBN
9780132704885